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joining us is u.s. leader of m&a practice at pricewaterhouse which is forecasting sustaineded activity. what impact is the fiscal cliff having? >> it's impacting the level of activity in the final quarter of 2012. we are seeing acceleration. if we look at volume and values of deals in october and november, we popped up 10%, 15% above the average after the previous nine months. so i think if you were contemplating the deal between september of this year and march of next, the likelihood is you'll try to pull it forward to try to take advantage of the capital gains tax certainlily. >> so if you're rushing through this year, there will be a lull in the first quarter. >> yeah. i agree. i think we will potentially see a lull in the first quarter. but on the assumption that we do get past the fiscal cliff with successful resolution, which i think we're all optimistic we will, i think fundamentals are strong. we have corporate balance sheets still strong. we have private equity with a lot of available cash. an
joining us is u.s. leader of m&a practice at pricewaterhouse which is forecasting sustaineded activity. what impact is the fiscal cliff having? >> it's impacting the level of activity in the final quarter of 2012. we are seeing acceleration. if we look at volume and values of deals in october and november, we popped up 10%, 15% above the average after the previous nine months. so i think if you were contemplating the deal between september of this year and march of next, the...
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for us, it's innovation. at a time when the squeeze are on, innovation is sometimes on the back burner because price becomes the most important thing. maybe i don't get the best product available in the market but i get a product that does the job and it's cheaper. if it's becoming a little more tense, that may be in one or two markets the dominating factor. i have to deal with that. so for us it means more agile, faster reaction, reducing costs and dealing with the balance sheet. >> some businesses are now controlled by asian companies like the pc manufacturing. do you think it's the fate of the telecom equipmentmaker? >> i don't agree with that for the first reason that a lot of this is transforming. you picked up the phone to talk. today, you pick up a tablet to do many different things. you get a mixture of the telecom world. so that environment is so inf x influxed, there are so many different forces coming through to the forefront that you need not just to have your technology side, you need to have you
for us, it's innovation. at a time when the squeeze are on, innovation is sometimes on the back burner because price becomes the most important thing. maybe i don't get the best product available in the market but i get a product that does the job and it's cheaper. if it's becoming a little more tense, that may be in one or two markets the dominating factor. i have to deal with that. so for us it means more agile, faster reaction, reducing costs and dealing with the balance sheet. >> some...
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stay with us. can i help you? i heard you guys can ship ground for less than the ups store. that's right. i've learned the only way to get a holiday deal is to camp out. you know we've been open all night. is this a trick to get my spot? [ male announcer ] break from the holiday stress. save on grounipping at fedex office. >>> you are watching "worldwide exchange." no rest for italy. banking stocks lead the ftse mib lower as political uncertainty speaks investors. economic malaise in europe, japan and the u.s. all taking its toll. and obama and boehner meet face-to-face as the clock ticks towards the fiscal cliff. >>> china's growth has recently improved. may well be on track to surpass beijing's 7.5% gdp target for the year. but november's softer than expected trade data highlights the vulnerability to riskes from abroad. joining us more now is eunice eune. how likely is it that we see china hit or surpass these growth targets given the figures showed us? >> well, people are growing concerned abou
stay with us. can i help you? i heard you guys can ship ground for less than the ups store. that's right. i've learned the only way to get a holiday deal is to camp out. you know we've been open all night. is this a trick to get my spot? [ male announcer ] break from the holiday stress. save on grounipping at fedex office. >>> you are watching "worldwide exchange." no rest for italy. banking stocks lead the ftse mib lower as political uncertainty speaks investors. economic...
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joining us is portfolio manager at anc capital. arthur, thanks for joining us. how important are heathrow slots if you want to compete? >> i think they're important to have a presence there and when you look at what delta is doing specifically, they're increasing their scope. and when you look at the flights and the offerings that delta has, it's week relative to american b.a. so what delta wants to do, it smells an opportunity here to give an offer to go customers because this is a network business and move those customers that maybe are going on ba, aa, or united out of newark on o. to the delta large system. and that's the opportunity it has. and conversely people here that want to come to the states or the big network delta has to get people to points beyond i think for virgin to be part of a transaction here, you get the united states market which is a large market. >> you have sink more airlines which would sell, sky team with delta and sort of ba, aa team, as well, how are those three global shaping up, who is winning? >> well, i'm partial to sky team. sk
joining us is portfolio manager at anc capital. arthur, thanks for joining us. how important are heathrow slots if you want to compete? >> i think they're important to have a presence there and when you look at what delta is doing specifically, they're increasing their scope. and when you look at the flights and the offerings that delta has, it's week relative to american b.a. so what delta wants to do, it smells an opportunity here to give an offer to go customers because this is a...
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send us your predictions. you can e-mail us, worldwide@cnbc.com, tweet @cnbcwex, or even get direct to myself, @rosswestgate. and while we wait for the employment report, more thoughts about where european growth is going. drifting away. the bundesbank has warned of a possible recession in germany. central bank cutting its growth forecast for the eurozone's biggest economy and that expects growth to reach just 0.4% in 2013. a big cut from previous forecasts of 1% and 1.6%. there's also no political crisis in italy by the way. support has been withdrawn for the group run by monti. berlusconi hinted he may return to politics after stepping down last year. claudia joins us in milan. a number of reports suggested this may not upset investors too much just because we were going to have elections anyway, it doesn't bring it forward a lot earlier. is that the sense that you're getting? >> yes, it doesn't really change in terms of the timing. it just gives you an idea, though, of where berlusconi stands and what the s
send us your predictions. you can e-mail us, worldwide@cnbc.com, tweet @cnbcwex, or even get direct to myself, @rosswestgate. and while we wait for the employment report, more thoughts about where european growth is going. drifting away. the bundesbank has warned of a possible recession in germany. central bank cutting its growth forecast for the eurozone's biggest economy and that expects growth to reach just 0.4% in 2013. a big cut from previous forecasts of 1% and 1.6%. there's also no...
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e-mail us your thoughts or tweet us. and moving forward, i think we have just mentioned what you can do with the e-mails. and now we want to take a look at the markets. the ftse 100 adding .3%. double that for the xetra dax. the cac 40 up by about .25% and the ibex is snapping up this morning. it's up about 1%. the bond will reflect this risk on attitude. we're seeing spain and italy yields falling 5.4% or just under that level in spain. gilt in particular, if you look at the 1.92% level, this on the back of the inflation report which showed cpi up 2.7% year on year. forex, the euro/dollar was stronger earlier. we're seeing just a little bit to the up side. not too far off the 1.32 mark which is extraordinary. the sterling moving to a multi month high. 1.62. it's just over that level this morning, up .1%. >>> now, spain will keep a quick look -- take a quick look at the results from italy in this debt auction. we've got basically an offering of short-term bills, three month and six-month bills. the yields on that are sti
e-mail us your thoughts or tweet us. and moving forward, i think we have just mentioned what you can do with the e-mails. and now we want to take a look at the markets. the ftse 100 adding .3%. double that for the xetra dax. the cac 40 up by about .25% and the ibex is snapping up this morning. it's up about 1%. the bond will reflect this risk on attitude. we're seeing spain and italy yields falling 5.4% or just under that level in spain. gilt in particular, if you look at the 1.92% level, this...
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e-mail us, worldwide@cnbc.com. tweet us here @@cnbcwex. >>> going, going gone. depleting resources isn't just a concern for environmentalists but for the community, their. as finite materials become scarer and prices inch upwards, some companies have to look at alternatives. the resource crunch may be around the corner. joining us for more is tom delay, chief executive of the carbon trust. tom, welcome. >> good morning. >> you've been trying to draw attention to this issue. how do we know beyond this general sense of resource depletion just how unprepared companies are for this transition? >> well, we advise governments and businesses around the world, particularly leading organizations on resource efficiency and carbon reduction. we wanted to see whether there was a broader passion here and whether other organizations were engaged in the same way as leading organizations. we did market research. we looked into almost 500 executive opinions on essentially resource efficiency, resource crunch, what they were doing -- >> what do you mean resource? what kind of res
e-mail us, worldwide@cnbc.com. tweet us here @@cnbcwex. >>> going, going gone. depleting resources isn't just a concern for environmentalists but for the community, their. as finite materials become scarer and prices inch upwards, some companies have to look at alternatives. the resource crunch may be around the corner. joining us for more is tom delay, chief executive of the carbon trust. tom, welcome. >> good morning. >> you've been trying to draw attention to this issue....
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get in touch with us here, e-mail us, worldwide@cnbc.com. tweet us. >>> joe gill has decided not to slap a downgrade on the country's growth for the first time in four months. japan looks set to recover from its fourth remember session in 12 years on a pick up in industrial demand. still, it did warn that japan's economic environment remains week. the bank of japan also says foreign ownership of government bonds has risen to a record high at the end of september. this is important. the data suggests japan is growing more reliance on overseas investors to fund the nation's massive debt. reuters is reporting that heavy demand from japanese investors has helped increase foreign holding of polish sovereign bonds. asian investors are apparently attracted to poland's better returns and less risky economy. for more on this, we're joined by rajig beswos. i just want to start here on this point about japanese investors buying polish debt. you can understand why a japanese investor is looking for yields. is there any reason to be concerned about their
get in touch with us here, e-mail us, worldwide@cnbc.com. tweet us. >>> joe gill has decided not to slap a downgrade on the country's growth for the first time in four months. japan looks set to recover from its fourth remember session in 12 years on a pick up in industrial demand. still, it did warn that japan's economic environment remains week. the bank of japan also says foreign ownership of government bonds has risen to a record high at the end of september. this is important. the...
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we hope it's by watching us here on "worldwide exchange." e-mail us, tweet us. ross westgate will be back tomorrow if the world doesn't end. stick around. to south korea, the incoming president says she wants warmer ties, but it has to be on her terms. plenty more when we come back. i always wait until the last minute. can i still ship a gift in time for christmas? yeah, sure you can. great. where's your gift? uh... whew. [ male announcer ] break from the holiday stress. ship fedex express [ maby december 22nd break from the holiday stress. for christmas delivery. >>> south korea's president elect park geun-hye wants it known that she's not willing to make concessions with the north. she says she wants to pursue further relations. only if the north abandon its nuclear program. why should they take her seriously? sherry kang explains. >>> scenes of victory and celebration after park geun-hye won the presidential elections. >> this election is your victory. this is a victory brought by the people's hope for overcoming crisis and economic recovery. >> the daughter
we hope it's by watching us here on "worldwide exchange." e-mail us, tweet us. ross westgate will be back tomorrow if the world doesn't end. stick around. to south korea, the incoming president says she wants warmer ties, but it has to be on her terms. plenty more when we come back. i always wait until the last minute. can i still ship a gift in time for christmas? yeah, sure you can. great. where's your gift? uh... whew. [ male announcer ] break from the holiday stress. ship fedex...
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joining us is sue foxley. good to see you. thanks so much for joining us. mark field says -- he's quoted today, he says figures show we've had a 53% decrease in greater london property sales between 2 and 5 million. is it all stamp duty? how much of an impact do you think it's had? >> i think stamp duty was really the nail in the coffin for that part of the market during this period. i mean certainly there is a struggle there in terms of the economy and there is uncertainty in order to make a big investment like that. people are a little bit nervous. i think the caution now is not so much the actual figure, which obviously don't's things particularly just over two million, but it's more the concern that actually we don't know quite what's going to come next. and we really need a stable transparent system that we can trust as how we're going to move in the future. >> the chancellor sticks another percentage on to stamp duty. if he raises it up one million, all going to have a big collective groan. >> i think we all should have a collective groan actually, be
joining us is sue foxley. good to see you. thanks so much for joining us. mark field says -- he's quoted today, he says figures show we've had a 53% decrease in greater london property sales between 2 and 5 million. is it all stamp duty? how much of an impact do you think it's had? >> i think stamp duty was really the nail in the coffin for that part of the market during this period. i mean certainly there is a struggle there in terms of the economy and there is uncertainty in order to...